Ronald M. O'connor
Engineering at Jules Ave, New Orleans, LA

2003000, Jan 16, 2003

Jun 13, 2002

10/167610

Lynn Morlier - New Orleans LA, US
Christopher Greve - Covington LA, US
Ronald O'Connor - Jefferson LA, US

A01G025/00

047/079000

A houseplant maintenance device and methods for receiving and maintaining a potted plant. The device having a base, a water reservoir, at least one wick element, a wick holder. The wick element draws moisture or nutrients from within the reservoir and delivers it to the soil in the pot. Adjusting the wick element in the wick holder regulates the rates of moisture conductance. The wick elements include a water-impervious covering around a middle portion thereof. The base of the device includes a gasket, a support ring, and a raised lip as well as features that facilitate methods for displaying the plant, such as hanging or aligning the device. Additionally, a device and method for addition of nutrient cations to a containerized houseplant from nutrient solids of relatively low aqueous solubility. The nutrient solids dissociate in the aqueous reservoir. A wick element communicates between the aqueous reservoir and the soil of the potted plant. The wick element is capable of conducting moisture and has been chemically bonded with negative sites, as an cation exchanger. The cations dissociating in the reservoir are attracted to the negative sites on the wick element and are driven upward with the moisture conductance of the wick. The absence of cations from solution encourages more dissociation of nutrient solid's cations which ultimately collect on the wick. Periodically the wick element is immersed into a solution of sufficient ionic strength to drive the retained cations on the wick into the soil.

5072640, Dec 17, 1991

Apr 30, 1990

7/516522

Christopher G. Greve - Covington LA
Ronald M. O'Connor - Jefferson LA

The Laitram Corporation - New Orleans LA

B26D 540

83208

Apparatus and method for quickly and accurately cutting conveyor belt modules is disclosed. A guide track supports and provides a path past a cutting location for the modules that are to be cut. The modules are stopped after a selected amount of width of the module to be cut has passed the cutting location. A cutting blade which has a length extending orthogonal to the direction of travel of the modules is aligned by a die which provides a guide for the cutting blade and also accurately positions the modules prior to cutting. The blade is moved or activated by a means such as a hydraulic damped pneumatic cylinder at a controlled speed so as to cut through the modules. A cylindrical shaped anvil is located substantially across the length of the module being cut such that it provides support to the modules along a line directly opposite the length of the blade as the blade cuts through the modules. However, being cylindrical the support provided by the anvil to the module decreases from the line of support in both directions along the travel path.

5774967, Jul 7, 1998

Sep 5, 1997

8/924506

Christopher G. Greve - Covington LA
Paul L. Horton - Metairie LA
Ronald M. O'Connor - Jefferson LA

The Laitram Corporation - Harahan LA

B23P 1902

29235

A hand held plastic rod gripping tool 25 is especially adapted for forcefully pushing thin cylindrical plastic rods into a resident pivot joint site between two modular links of a conveyor belt. Plastic pivot rods are difficult to insert manually because they are thin, and easily flexed, making them hard to grasp frictionally in the fingers at a stiff short section for forceful axial insertion. Also some conveyor modules require the rods or the modules to be distorted for snapping in over a barrier ridge thus requiring more force for initial entry. The tool 25 has a cylindrical knurled 26 hand grip body, of a diameter that permits a firm grasp, through which extends an axial passageway, typically a slot 27, for entry of the rod. A manually movable gripper assembly 45 is generally laterally movable to frictionally contact a rod 10 held within the tool body. Within an interior channel 49 at an acute converging angle 50 toward a rod 10 the gripper 45 is spring biassed 46 to move toward the rod surface.

5181879, Jan 26, 1993

Jan 22, 1992

7/824006

James M. Lapeyre - New Orleans LA
Christopher Greve - Covington LA
Ronald M. O'Connor - Jefferson LA

The Laitram Corporation - Harahan LA
Stolar, Inc. - Raton NM

H22C 2518

452160

An apparatus for processing a fish body into a plurality of transverse fish body section includes a plurality of spaced apart vertically standing work stations, each including a structural frame that supports a continuous rail or runway. The runway includes inclined sections that extend between the work station thereby defining an inclined travel path between the work stations. A wheeled carriage is movably mounted upon the runway and includes a set of spring loaded jaws for holding a fish body section to be processed. The carriage is movably mounted upon the runway so that the carriage can travel from one work station to the next in a sequential fashion. Each work station has a section of rail connected to the inclined runway which is at a lower elevation than the previous work station by a dimension which is equal to the thickness of the fish body section to be processed. Each work station may include a cutting blade such as, for example, a rotary band saw. The saws are at a constant elevation.

5155917, Oct 20, 1992

May 10, 1991

7/698405

Jackson Townsend - Metairie LA
Nancy G. Townsend - Metairie LA
Ronald M. O'Connor - Jefferson LA

Nursing Knowledge, Inc. - Metairie LA

G01B 308

33374

A pocket sized telescopic level apparatus includes a plurality of at least three telescoping tubular sections including a largest section and sequentially smaller sections, each section having an exterior diameter and a longitudinal bore with an interior diameter, and wherein the sections are of sequentially larger external diameter so that one section fits into an adjacent section and all sections are contained upon the largest section in a collapsed position. A level bubble member is disposed at an end portion of the largest section and a plurality of shims form interfaces between the end portions of adjacent sections upon extension of the apparatus. The shims are tubularly shaped and positioned between the outer wall of an end portion of one section and the inner wall of an adjacent section.

5666742, Sep 16, 1997

Dec 10, 1993

8/164949

Christopher G. Greve - Covington LA
Ronald M. O'Connor - Jefferson LA

The Laitram Corporation - Harahan LA

F26B 1900

34218

A temperature modification assembly comprises a housing, a temperature modification element disposed in the housing, and a blower arranged to direct an air flow past the temperature modification element. The temperature modification assembly may further comprise at least one freely extending duct coupled to the housing, communicating with the blower and defining a pocket having a narrow profile; first and second freely extending ducts coupled to the housing and a blower arranged to direct a flow of air between the first and second ducts; and/or an open ended jacket cooperatively arranged with the housing and a blower arranged to circulate a flow of air between the temperature modification element and the interior of the jacket.

5443001, Aug 22, 1995

Oct 2, 1992

7/955664

C. Michael Keller - Folsom LA
Pamela S. Keller - Folsom LA
Christopher Greve - Covington LA
Ronald O'Connor - Jefferson LA

B31F 107

101 27

A method and apparatus for imprinting plastic frustro-conically shaped container with a die containing a printing element or elements compresses and flattens the container sidewall during printing. The design is arcuately arranged to correct for distortion which would occur if the flattened side wall were printed with orthogonally arranged letters or design.